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The Phillips Memorial Library is a depository for federal and Rhode Island state documents. The depository collections cover a wide range of topics, from nutrition to warfare, from Narragansett Bay to lead poisoning. The depositories hold over 250,000 documents in an array of formats, with significant collections of Census materials, ERIC documents, GAO reports, and Congressional hearings.

The library has been a federal government documents depository since 1969. Currently, the library receives approximately 33% of all documents made available to the public through the depository program. The collection consists of documents in paper, in microform, on CD, DVD, videocassette and published on the Web. There are maps, data sets, reports, hearings and recordings in the collection.

The library is a full depository of Rhode Island state documents. The collection dates back to 1996 when the Rhode Island State Documents Clearinghouse was established by state law.

All documents received since 1998 are listed in the HELIN library catalog. 
All documents may be borrowed.  
For  help in finding earlier documents, please consult the Documents Librarian .

Reference help for government documents is available from the Government Documents Department as well as the Reference Department. The Government Documents Department, in Library 109, is open from 8:00 am-4:30 pm Monday through Friday. The department may be reached at 401-865-1990 or 401-865-1678.

Government Documents Staff:

Julia R. Tryon, Government Documents Librarian
Deborah L. Angelo, Government Documents Assistant

Helpful links to Government Information:

GPO Access —a primary source of information from all three branches of the federal government, with links to documents and websites, full-text of popular titles, and a searchable catalog of U.S. government documents.
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/index.html

Thomas—Congressional information from the Library of Congress including bills, resolutions, laws, roll call votes, schedules and calendars, committee reports, and helpful guides.
http://thomas.loc.gov/

RI.gov—the official website for the state of Rhode Island with links to agencies and departments, history, legislation, forms, calendars, tourist information and directories of elected officials.
http://www.ri.gov/index.php

How to Cite Government Documents

From  Arizona State University—
http://www.asu.edu/lib/hayden/govdocs/docscite/docscite.htm

From the University of Nevada, Reno —http://www.library.unr.edu/depts/bgic/guides/government/cite.html

From the University of Memphis—
http://exlibris.memphis.edu/resource/unclesam/citeweb.html

Revised: 14 March 2007